荣誉课程的设计旨在使学生对物理学有更深的了解。完成荣誉学位的学生必须完成一项研究论文（论文），该论文通常被认为是“迷你硕士”论文。这些论文的结果应该是可发表的（在教学或研究期刊上），实际上，许多本科生已经是参考研究和/或会议论文的合著者。从天体物理学到量子力学再到全息照相，学生们进行了各种各样的项目。
The honours program is designed so that students can gain a much deeper appreciation of physics. Students completing an honours degree must complete a research dissertation (thesis) that is generally regarded as a “mini-Masters” thesis. The results of these theses should be publishable (either in pedagogical or research journals) and in fact many undergraduate students have already been co-authors on refereed research andor conference papers. A variety of different projects have been undertaken by students ranging from astrophysics to quantum mechanics to holography. A list of recent theses can be found in the Projects section of this website. Thus the honours program gives students a significant advantage in being awarded graduate scholarships (e.g., the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship is presently worth in excess of 17,000year). A list of recent graduates who have been awarded these prestigious awards can be found on the Students page of this website. Students enrolled in the honours program are also much more likely to be hired as summer research assistants by departmental faculty members (more than 80% of honours students have been hired as summer researchers).